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The Imagined Life : A Novel

Name: The Imagined Life : A Novel
Rating: 5.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780593538050

Andrew Porter

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From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer, a taut, elegiac novel about a man trying to uncover the truth about the father who left him behind Steven Mills has reached a crossroads. His wife and son have left, and they may not return. Which leaves him determined to find out what happened to his own father, a brilliant, charismatic professor who disappeared in 1984 when Steve was twelve, on a wave of ignominy. As Steve drives up the coast of California, seeking out his father’s friends, family members, and former colleagues, the novel offers us tantalizing glimpses into Steve’s childhood—his parents’ legendary pool parties, the black-and-white films on the backyard projector, secrets shared with his closest friend. Each conversation in the present reveals another layer of his father’s past, another insight into his disappearance. Yet with every revelation, his father becomes more difficult to recognize. And, with every...

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Year:

2025

Publisher:

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2024038538

ISBN 13:

9780593538050